The aim of the Education Committee (EC) is to coordinate ESOT’s efforts to advance multidisciplinary education for transplant professionals at all career levels and to contribute to their professional development.
The Basic Science Committee promotes scientific issues and transplantation research within ESOT. An active basic science community and an efficient translation of innovation into the clinic are crucial for the future of transplantation medicine.
The European Transplant Allied Healthcare Professionals (ETAHP) reaches out to allied healthcare professionals throughout Europe in order to ensure the best care possible for all transplant patients, with the aim to optimize patient outcomes.
The Young Professionals in Transplantation (YPT) is the Network for Junior Transplant professionals of ESOT, representing all young transplant clinicians and scientists who are beginning a career in transplantation and organ donation.
The mission of ECTORS is to provide a forum for discussing and stimulating novel developments in the fields of cellular therapies in organ transplantation, organ regeneration and generation of new organs from stem cells and biomaterials.
ECTTA is the forum for experience exchange on treatment of patients with end-stage heart and lung failure. Our aim is to improve outcomes for the patients.
EDTCO aims to support health care professionals to provide clinically effective programmes on organ and tissue donation, procurement and transplantation.
EKITA is the Organ Expert Section of ESOT on kidney transplantation in Europe, providing a forum for kidney transplantation professionals to exchange scientific information and views aimed at providing the best service to European patients .
The European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), previously known as the European Liver Transplant Association (ELTA), is a section of ESOT. Its membership represents the expertise on liver and intestinal transplantation in Europe.
ELPAT is a European platform that brings continuity and progress in European research and dialogue on "Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of organ Transplantation". ELPAT currently consists of over 160 experts from more than 25 European countries.
EPITA is established to provide a forum for those working in the field of pancreas and islet of Langerhans transplantation or any other alternative form of beta cell replacement in Europe, to exchange scientific information and views related primarily to providing the best service for patients in Europe requiring pancreas or islet transplantation.
VCA has opened a new era in the field of transplantation, reconstructive and restorative surgery. This Section brings together 10 representatives of major European teams at the forefront in this field.
The European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR) is the official database of ELITA. The idea for an ELTR was brought up at the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) meeting in Munich, in 1985. A group of liver transplant professionals, including representatives from the pioneering liver transplant centres in Europe, decided to create the ELTR with the following objectives :
– To register all liver transplantations performed in Europe
– To provide a link between European liver transplant centres
– To stimulate scientific research and publications based on the European experience.
Paul Brousse Hospital (Villejuif, France) was designated to manage and analyse the data of ELTR since its creation. Two years after it was founded, ELTR collected information on all liver transplant recipients performed in 32 European centres, which led to a landmark paper in the Lancet (Lancet 1987; 2 : 674).
Currently, the ELTR is one of the oldest European-wide medical registries. ELTR includes data from 170,000 liver transplants performed on 153,000 patients from 171 centres in 32 countries. The questionnaire contains data on the indication for transplantation, donor characteristics, technical aspects of liver transplantation, cause of death or graft failure and initial and maintenance immunosuppression. The ELTR gives for more than 35 years, critical information on the outcome and the evolution of liver transplantation in Europe. While the data were initially obtained with a centre-driven approach, for several years a large part of them (>75%) are shared with Organ Sharing Organizations (*) and the remainder are directly retrieved from the liver transplant centres through an electronic data capture system.
(*)
– United Kingdom Blood and Transplant Authority (NHSBT) www.nhsbt.nhs.uk
– Spanish “Organizaciòn Nacional de Transplantes” (ONT) www.ont.es
– French “Agence de la Biomédecine” (ABM) www.agence-biomedecine.fr
– Deutch “Nederlandse Transplantatie Stichting” (NTS) www.transplantatiestichting.nl
– Eurotransplant Foundation (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Slovenia) www.eurotransplant.org
– Scanditransplant (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) www.scandiatransplant.org
